A club at Silver High School called the Gay Straight Alliance has has stirred controversy-- and it's not even a week old.

The club, which started Thursday, is meant to teach students tolerance of the sexual orientation of others. Some members of the club say that they have been threatened by fellow students.

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Members of GSA said that they were threatened by a student on Silver's football team.

The police and school principal were notified and after investigating, said that the threat was idle.

The school administration and many students said that they're in support of the GSA's message of tolerance.

"It's not really to promote it for kids that aren't interested as much as it is to bring some type of awareness of it, so people understand where some of these kids are coming from," Bud Graham, principal for Silver High, said.

"They just think they're different so nobody wants to be friends with them," Crystal Taylar, a student said. "So yes, I think it's going to bring people closer together and people are going to understand them more."

There are only a few members of the Gay Straight Alliance. Action 7 News reported that over 100 students signed a petition in support of the club.